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April 29 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc has ordered 37 current-generation A321 aircraft from Airbus Group worth $4.25 billion at list prices in a deal that Delta Chief Executive Ed Bastian called "opportunistic".
The widely anticipated announcement comes a day after Delta, the second-largest U.S. airline by traffic, ordered 75 of Bombardier Inc's CS100 aircraft. It said Friday's agreement will help it to replace 116 ageing MD-88 aircraft that it plans to retire.
In a way this is kinda sad.
Full disclosure, I never flew the maddog and never will. But, when the maddog is gone, what airplane are we going to pick on? I mean its the frikkin maddog. The Rube Goldberg masterpiece. The only plane still flying with a micro entabulator. The original Honey Badger! And still it dont give a ****!
When we retire them, id guess that they will be dismantled as opposed to flying west to the boneyard. Attitude heading reference systems parts are in pretty high demand globally.